The future is Australian-made
Matilda began with a dream for Australia to own it's AI future. A future where Australia's role in AI isn't simply to provide computing power while someone else owns the models. Our vision is that Australian-made AI is built here, on our terms, with our own data and our own people. Not a thin layer on top of someone else's infrastructure, but the whole thing, controlled end to end (or from tin to token as we like to say).
Matilda was also made to be something genuinely useful. Not AI for the sake of AI, but AI that gets the local context, the language, the regulations, the way people actually work here. AI that makes people more productive and creative without asking them to ship their data overseas or adapt to someone else's way of doing things.
And it meant keeping it open. Not locked up behind one company's walls, but available to researchers, startups, and public servants across the country. A platform that lifts the whole ecosystem. That was the vision. Prove Australia could build world-class AI, keep it here, and share it broadly. Show that owning your capability and staying open aren't mutually exclusive, they're actually stronger together.
Since the beta launched, we have released Matilda Code for Desktop and CLI, alongside Matilda's browser and mobile apps. We released the API, so users can incorporate Australian-powered AI directly into their products. We've heard from our users: Matilda works. It delights. It has a "good knowledge of all things Australian." We're grateful to the thousands of you who have made the open beta such a success.
Now, we're coming out of open beta. We're betting on Australia owning its AI future. We hope you join us.
Want even more of Matilda? Train your own models on our compute at Matilda Train, or reach out to us about custom model training and deployments. Let's build the future of Australian-made AI together.
